200 Mission: Health Equity Challenge Series - Using a Four-part Multimedia, Interdisciplinary Framework to Raise Health Disparities Awareness and Advance Health Equity

Abstract

OBJECTIVES/GOALS: The Mission: Health Equity Challenge Series is a four-part multimedia, interdisciplinary series that raises awareness about health disparities and health equity, cultivates environments for collaboration, and encourages participants to apply learnings via film screenings, a book discussion, community research panel, and un-meeting. METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: Methods used to collect data include: REDCap for participant profile storage and surveys, Zoom polls and chats, and informal, unsolicited feedback from e-mail communications. Our primary study population includes researchers and healthcare professionals. Secondary populations include: administrative staff and community members. We had approximately 500 individuals, across four of our hospital institution stakeholders (Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, MetroHealth, and the VA Northeast Ohio Health Care System), the community at-large, and others from CTSA hubs and related entities participated in one or more of the challenges. RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: We anticipate that participants in the Mission: Health Equity Challenge Series, whether they participated in one or more of the challenges, will gain increased awareness about health disparities and how research can help close preventable gaps in health outcomes amongst underserved communities as well as advance health equity. Additionally, we suspect that due to the diverse nature of each challenge and attraction of nontraditional audiences to spaces with researchers and healthcare professionals, we will foster environments where cross-institutional, interdisciplinary collaboration can thrive. This is the type of collaboration needed to address complex problems that prevent health equity. DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE: This challenge series elevates the relationship between advancing health equity and clinical and translational science and is one way to create opportunities for the existing research community to meet and collaborate with individuals that are not typically included in the ideation, design, implementation, and dissemination of research.